Page 3: Historical Events In January - 28

1813  On January - 28 jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41   

1814  On this day in history stendahl's 1st book is published   

1815  On this day in history andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1875   

1817  On January - 28 friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer, dies at 55   

1818  George Sewall Boutwell, MC (Union), died in 1905 on this day in history.   

1819  On this day in history sir Stamford Raffles first lands in Singapore much later a famous Hotel bears his name   

1819  Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore on this day in history.   

1820  Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast on January - 28.   

1821  Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica on this day in history.   

1822  Alexander MacKenzie, (L) 2nd PM of Canada (1873-78) on January - 28.   

1824  On this day in history william Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40)   

1825  George Edward Pickett, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 on this day in history.   

1828  Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor on January - 28.   

1829  On January - 28 william Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh   

1830  The opera "Fra Diavolo" is produced (Paris) on this day in history.   

1830  On this day in history opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris   

1831  On January - 28 henry Brevard Davidson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899   

1832  Franz Wullner, composer on January - 28.   

1833  Charles George Gordon, London, general (China, Khartoum) on January - 28.   

1838  On this day in history aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS]   

1841  On this day in history the birth of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Sent to find the missing Dr Livingstone   

1841  Henry Stanley, Engld, journalist/explorer (found Livingston in Africa) on this day in history.   

1846  On January - 28 battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India)   

1848  On this day in history king of Naples grants his subjects a constitution   

1851  On January - 28 northwestern University (Chicago) chartered   

1853  On January - 28 jose Martí y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician   

1855  The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway on January - 28.   

1855  William Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine) on January - 28.   

1858  John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry on January - 28.   

1860  Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua on January - 28.   

1864  On January - 28 battle of New Bern, NC   

1864  Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer on this day in history.   

1865  On January - 28 president Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners   

1865  On this day in history pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners   

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1225  Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274) was born on January - 28.   

1312  Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349) was born on this day in history.   

1457  On January - 28 birth of henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509)   

1540  Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610) was born on January - 28.   

1578  On this day in history birth of cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39)   

1582  On this day in history birth of john Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon)   

1600  Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69) was born on this day in history.   

1608  Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer was born on January - 28.   

0814  Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1061  On this day in history death of duke SpytihnÄ›v II of Bohemia (b. 1031)   

1119  On January - 28 gelasius II, [Giovannis Caetani], pope (1118-19), dies   

1256  On this day in history willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22   

1271  On this day in history death of isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)   

1393  On this day in history death of earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball   

1443  On January - 28 death of robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France   

1528  On this day in history philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies